Cory Manor

Heritage listing

Details SS31NE WEST PUTFORD CP VILLAGE CENTRE 3/65 Cory Manor (formerly listed as Cory Park) 14.2.58 GV II* Manor house. Late C16-early C17, open hall ceiled subsequently, billiard room added and service area extended late C19-early C20, roofs replaced, hall ceiling removed and house extensively restored late 1940s, architect John Macgregor. Random rubble local stone, shallow pitch bitumenised slate roof hipped to left with external stone stack, brick chimney, large lateral stone stack on rear elevation, stone stack north gable end of north-west wing. Plan: open hall house facing east with coeval framed stair north end giving access to crosswing, (date of north-east range uncertain), screens passage with corridor between pantry and buttery giving acess to kitchen, C20 extensions on south- west linked by wall to billiard room adjoining north-west wing to form courtyard. Two storeys, 4:1 bays, all windows renewed C20 and leaded, one exception only, first floor 4- light stone mullioned window left, 3-light metal, 2-light above entrance and 3-light stone end bay right, mullioned and transomed window in gable end of wing, ground floor 4-light end bay left, small metal window set in larger opening, to left of entrance original 4-light hollow chamfered mullioned window with king mullion under relieving arch, with string course hoodmould, remains of plinth on facade of main block though, not to wing which has 4-light stone mullioned window on ground floor; entrance via round-headed doorway of uncertain date. Some C18/ early C19 leaded metal casements survive on first floor west front, the 5-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window in south gable end of north-west wing which is in decay is thought to be mid C20. There is a tiny 2-light chamfered wooden window on north front. Interio

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.